Jim Gabour

Jim Gabour is a film producer, writer and director, whose work focuses primarily on music and the diversity of cultures. His New Orleans novel Unimportant People is available via Kindle.

All-Fact

In the second of Jim Gabour's fictional sketches we meet Rodrigo, once an upstanding Chicago attorney, now one of the 'Unimportant People'. II Rodrigo, stands motionless

By Jim Gabour

/ 15 Jun 2011

Yellow Dogs

This is the first of a series of fictional character sketches from the openDemocracy writer’s latest novel, Unimportant People… I Back just a while, without us even asking, the

By Jim Gabour

/ 6 Jun 2011

One

We haven’t been eating as well, or as easily, here in New Orleans neighborhoods since Katrina – we still have to drive 30-45 minutes each way to get rudimentary food,

By Jim Gabour

/ 26 Apr 2011

I Live in a Small World

At home, our author has been building, with a hunger for food, wholeness, and what reckless history there is in the stones and the magic beneath them

By Jim Gabour

/ 19 Apr 2011

Day of the Braindead

Our author prepares for Mardi Gras, intent on paying proper tribute to his local culture.

By Jim Gabour

/ 1 Mar 2011

Gabour, Giffords, gangs, guns and self-righteous thugs. The massacre in Arizona is part of a murderous culture, one in which death and violence are a norm and hardly reprehensible. It needs weapons to survive, but also a sentiment of righteous indignation that only a real or imagined support group

By Jim Gabour

/ 22 Jan 2011

Boils next time

A fire rages through a block. Rebuilding is never done. It gets wearying. First published Feb 4th 2006

By Jim Gabour

/ 27 Aug 2010

No more Hippie food!

"Do not place cadavers or feces on the sidewalk for curbside collection." Or try and set up a soup kitchen serving hippie food. Petty abuses of power will not be stopped by a city-destroying, life-crushing calamity. First published November 1st 2005

By Jim Gabour

/ 25 Aug 2010

Introduction to Unimportance

Jim Gabour introduces his novel and its serialisation, "Unimportant People"

By Jim Gabour

/ 25 Aug 2010

Disarmed

In the end I decided not to take it. There were the army roadblocks and checkpoints going into the city, and vehicle searches. I did not savour the prospect of

By Jim Gabour

/ 24 Aug 2010

Bookends

Will Deepwater Horizon be like Katrina? No. New Orleans cannot fix things on its own this time. This week sees the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and we will re-publish daily Jim Gabour's key postings from the City.

By Jim Gabour

/ 22 Aug 2010

Once again, the Tease

As Louisiana braces itself for Tropical Storm Bonnie, Jim Gabour reflects on the current mood in New Orleans.

By Jim Gabour

/ 29 Jul 2010